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News Release from: Legic Identsystems | Subject: Legic advant
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2003
RFID smart cards take on access control
The Legic advant RFID system was developed to support the design of access control and other person-related service applications.
The new Legic advant RFID system (on show this May at CTST in Orlando, Florida) has been developed to support the design of access control and other person-related service applications such as time and attendance, cashless payment, parking, identity etc, providing a maximum of security, scalability and cost-effective investment protection Due to its advanced security features and ISO and Legic RF standard compliance, the new Legic advant product line is particularly suitable for smart cards for ticketing or government ID solutions, general access control and related high-security applications, such as IT access and biometrics
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Its powerful multi-application capability allows a plug-and-play-style realisation of multifunctional staff badge or leisure card schemes as used in large-scale ticketing projects.
"The new line will further strengthen Legic's position as the preferred technology for single and multifunctional card applications", says Klaus Klosa, Managing Director of Legic Identsystems.
Stephen Neff, Legic's Vice President Marketing and Sales adds: "Legic advant will provide further growth for Legic and its global partner network.
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It allows Legic partners to competitively respond to the constantly increasing needs towards standard compliance within the industry".
The Legic advant line is a compatible addition to Legic's existing product lines - Legic prime and Legic smart.
The Legic advant product line complies with multiple industry standards including ISO 15693, 14443 and the Legic RF standard.
This ensures compatibility with existing product lines and provides a flexible choice of the industry standard and the reading range that is needed.
Due to its ability to operate simultaneously with mixed standards, Legic advant allows systems to run with cards of different standards while offering reading ranges from proximity to hands-free.
This results in seamless merging and migration possibilities for card populations.
Legic advant provides powerful security covering the data and application in contactless systems all the way from host communication until the data is stored on the transponder.
Advanced open industry encryption algorithms DES/3DES can be enabled for each application to maximise data protection.
The Legic advant line supports fast and easy integration into applications or upgrades from existing technologies, such as barcode, magnetic stripe or 125kHz proximity systems to a 13.56MHz system.
The application protocols required, such as Omron, various Wiegand formats and the BPA9 subset, are integrated in Legic advant.
Most common hardware interfaces such as SPI, RS232 and RS485 support convenient hardware integration and network connectivity.
In addition, Legic advant's cost-effective modular family of reader components allows to easily expand functionality and to extend the reading range between card and reader.
A highly integrated universal reader module offers a maximum of reader development convenience and integration possibilities.
Through its user-programmable controller and its versatile peripherals support, the module allows easy-to-realise, cost effective and highly compact solutions without the need for external processor components.
Adding the range extension module to chipsets or the hybrid reader module widens the reading range up to hands-free distance (up to 70cm and above) for ISO15693 and Legic RF standard cards.
The integrated software download facility allows later system upgrades of, for example, new encryption algorithms, application protocols or additional high-level functionality thus ensuring high investment protection.
Legic authorisation tokens provide powerful, impassable control over card populations, applications and overall installation control.
Legic's highly proven master-token system control offers secure physical authorisation and allows users to design the security concept and chosen system structure on a high level.
Its inheritance based automatic key manager organises the handling and data access rights of each card, their individual applications and its readers according to the user-defined system structure.
With Legic advant it is possible to implement multifunctional cards with up to 127 independent applications of various memory sizes on a single transponder.
Through the variable segment lengths and dynamic segment search functions, Legic allows users to easily realise multi-application schemes with a high degree of flexibility.
The powerful dynamic multi-application handling makes it simple to combine various applications of different type, memory size, supplier and ownership on a single transponder.
Legic advant offers a choice of 256, 1024 and 2048byte crypto transponders.
For readers there are three types of chipsets for different standards, a fully integrated universal hybrid reader module and an additional range extension module for higher reading ranges available.
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